Attachment for cars.



PATENTED APR. 26?', 1904.

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P. PREADREAZEA.

ATTACHMENT FOR GARS.

APPLICATION FILED mso. 19. 1903.

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PATENTED APR. 26, 190A.`

v T. TRBADREAZBA. ATTACHMENT TOR GARS.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 19. 1903.

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@A mgm Patented April 26, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

l FREAD FREADREAZEA, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

ATTACHMENT Fon CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,519, dated April26, 1904.

Application iiled December 19, 1903. Serial No. 185,836. (N0 model.)

the following is a specification.

This invention relatesto attachments for cars, especially express carsand the like.

wherein are deposited valuables, such as money-safes; and the primaryobject of the same is to s0 protect a car of this class by the additionthereto of a metal guard-box and projecting tower lin communicationtherewith-at an elevation and also inclosing fastening means cooperatingwith diiferent portions of the car that the latter may be elfectuallydefended by a single person against the inroads and nefarious practiceof robbers, the improved means also being operative in part to hold aprisoner outside of the compartment or guardbox wherein the valuablesare contained at the will of the defender of said compartment.

A further object of the invention is to have in addition to a guardcompartment or box a holding means for the retention of a prisoner andan elevated tower which will permit an voccupant of the compartment orbox to have a commanding view of an entire train, including the engineand tender, without liability of dangerous' exposure and with advantagein freeing a train from a holdup by confederates stationed at pointsalong the length ofthe:v

train during the attempt of oneormore of the accomplices oftheconfederates to gain access.

to a car or cars to relieve the latter of valuables.

The invention consists in the further novel construction and arrangementof the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter set forlocking the car-door to prevent opening of the latter. Fig. 6 is adetailperspective view of a portion of the car-door and casing of the guardcompartment or box, showing means for closing the car-door after thelatter has been opened and locking the same.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates a portion of an express or other analogous carof any suitable construction and having an end entrance-door 2 leadingVto the usual end platform 3. The door 2 is hinged, as usual, and opensinwardly. In the cornerof the car adjacent to the hinged edge of thedoor 2 is a steel or other suitable metal compartment or guard-box 4,which extends vertically from the floor ofthe car to the top of thelatter and communicates with an upper inspection-tower or turret 5,projecting through and above the top of the car and having a series ofport-holes 6 therein, covered by slide-doors 7, movable in guides 8 onthe inner surface of the walls of the tower or turret. As many of theport-holes and slide-doors cooperating therewith may be used as foundnecessary, so that an occupant of the turret or tower may have fullcommanding view of a train from end to end and whereby also a firearmmay be aimed in any direction in relation to the train.

Each slide-door 7 has a drop latch-bar 9, which also serves as a handlein operating such door, and tolock the door closed the said droplatch-bar falls between a pair of pins 10, projecting inwardly from theinner surface of the tower or turret side or end below the lowermostguide 8, saidl pins being so disposed that when the door is fully closedthe drop latch-bar will move between the same.

The guard compartment or box 4 is provided with an entrance-door 11,Whichmay be locked on the inside by a suitable latch 12. In thiscompartment or box at a suitable point is a winding-drum 13, with whicha cable or analogous device 14 cooperates and runs through a suitableconduit 15 over guide-pulleys 16 and across the car at a suitabledistance from the door 2, where it is attached to one end of acollapsible imprisoning-partition 17, suspended by hangers 18 from anupper track- IOO rail 19, the said partition being of a grated type, asclearly shown by Fig. 4, and readily operative to convert one end ofthecar-body into what may be termed an imprisoning cell or inclosure.7

To render the function of the imprisoningpartition 17 effective, it isobvious that means must be provided for quickly closing and locking thedoor 2 against movement. This means consists of a rod 20, movablyattached to the inner side of the lower end of the door 2 and freelyshiftable through a slot 21 in the bottom of the side of the inclosureor box 4 at a point adjacent to the door, the end of the rod 2O withinthe compartment or box being bent at an angle to form a locking-pin 22,adapted to be inserted in a pin-hole 23 in the floor of the car withinsaid inclosure or box. Through the medium of this rod 20 the door can bequickly closed after it has been opened and locked, and following thisoperation the drum 13 may be conveniently operated to throw theimprisoning-partition 17 across the car, and thus form animprisoning-inclosure.

Another advantageous feature in the improved construction is means forpreventing the door 2 from being opened, and consists of a sliding bolt24,-inclosed within a portion of the car end adjacent to the hinged edgeof the door and adapted to be shifted to enter a socket 25 in said dooredge, as clearly shown by Fig. 5, the outer end of the sliding boltbeing bent at an angle to form a handle or grip 26, Inovably projectingthrough a'slot 27 in the outer end wall of the compartment or box 4 andengageable from the interior of the latter to quickly operate said bolt.

The compartment or box 4 will also have at regular intervals, as may befound desirable, port-holes for firearms similar to those arranged inthe tower or turret 5 in order that the interior of a car may be fullycovered in defensive operations, the said port-holes and means forclosing tho same being shown by Figs. 2 and 3 and having the samereferencenumerals applied thereto as the analogous devices in the toweror turret.

Although the invention has been particularly described in connectionwith cars or vehicles, it will be understood that the saine structuremay be used in banks and other places of a like nature.

The improved structure is comparatively simple and may be readilyapplied to cars now in use without requiring a reorganization of thelatter.

fhile the attachments are particularly intended for use in express-cars,it will be understood that they may be employed in other vehicles, andto accommodatel various applications changes in the proportions anddimensions, as well as the minor details, may be resorted to without inthe least departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1.The combination with a car, having a door opening thereinto, of a metalguard-inclosure located adjacent to said door, and a slide-boltconcealed within the car structure and solely operative from within thesaid inclosure to engage the door and lock the latter against openingmovement.

2. The combination with a car, having a door opening thereinto, of ametal guard-inclosure adjacent to the door, and a closing means for thedoor pivotally connected to the latter operative from within the closureand movable to lock the door closed after it has been opened.

3. The combination with a car, having a door opening thereinto, of aguard-inclosure adjacent to the door, a rod pivotally attached to thelower portion of the door and freely shiftable through the adjacent Wallof the inclosure and adapted to be located within the latter to preventopening movement of the door, and means for locking the rod againstmovement and controllable from Within the guard-inclosure.

4. The combination with a car, having a door opening thereinto, of aguard-inclosure located adjacent to the door and provided with a turretextending upwardly through and above the top of the car, the inclosureand turret having elosable port-holes, means operative from within theinclosure to shut and lock the door closed, and an imprisoning-partitiontransversely movable across the car and also operative from within theinclosure to form an imprisoning-eell at one end of the car.

5. The combination With a car, having a door, of a guard-inclosureWithin the car in proximity to the door, means operative from within theinclosure to shut and lock the door closed,. and a collapsibleimprisoning-partition movable transversely across the car and alsooperative from within the inclosure.

6. The combination with a car, of a metal guard-inclosure therein, andan imprisoningpartition shiftable transversely across the car at adistance from and operative from Within the inclosure to form a cell inthe car.

7. The combination with a car, having a door opening thereinto, of ametal guard-inclosure adjacent to the door, a slide-bolt concealedwithin the structure of the car and arranged to engage the door, saidbolt being operative from within the inclosure, and a closing meanspivotally attached to the door and movable through one wall of theguard-inclosure.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREAD FREADREAZEA. iNitnesses:

THOMAS H. WOLPERT, JOHN W. WARE.

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